Robert Page (Lifetime Group)
Robert Page MA is best known for having created The Lovers' Guide in 1991, when the British Board of Film Classification allowed him to make an explicit adult sex education title for release on video. It immediately went to Number One in the UK video charts and went into 13 languages and 22 territories.
He has since supervised The Lovers' Guide's growth into a library of ten videos and DVDs (distributed by such blue-chip companies as Universal, ITV Video, VCI, and Warners and shown on pay-per-view on Sky Box Office); three books (Pan Macmillan, Bloomsbury and Carlton Publishing); two CD ROMs (Waddington's, YTV/Thomson Int'l); 85 issues of a part-work/magazine (Marshall Cavendish); games including Fun-in-Bed (Double-G); card packs – The Lovers' Guide Lovemaking Deck (Connections Publishing); a major website at www.loversguide.com; and various mobile applications including Text Tips 4 Lovers, a daily sex tip service for Channel 4. The Lovers' Guide has also featured in two dedicated documentaries: The Making of the Lovers' Guide on Channel 5 and Daring Himself on Sky One and there are iTV games and quizzes produced by PlayJam and Two Way TV. The Lovers' Guide reached number 63 in Channel 4's 100 Sexiest Movie Moments and earned Robert Page a place on the 100 strong Happy List in the Independent on Sunday [27.04.08].
As founder [1985], Chairman and Chief Executive of the Lifetime Group, Page helped create with the Virgin Group the non-fiction sell-through video business, producing many how-to videos with such names as Alan Titchmarsh, Eric Idle, Susannah York, Johnny Morris, and Dr Desmond Morris. Some of the successes included: The Y Plan exercise series and The Scott and Charlene Love Story (compiled from Neighbours).
He has also produced many TV series including the drama series Runaway Bay (27 eps ITV & FR2), documentaries including three series of Floyd on... (for BBC), with Keith Floyd, Floyd on Spain, Floyd on Italy and Far Flung Floyd; two series of Go Wild! (for ITV), two series of Dating the Enemy (for ITV), Dr Desmond Morris' The Animal Contract (3 × 1hr – winner Hollywood Genesis Award) and Dead Men's Tales (ITV). He produced the John Cleland classic, Fanny Hill, as a TV movie and is currently producing Anna as a feature film with L.A.-based Fairweather Entertainment.
Robert began his career as a University Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts in Australia in 1974 and founded its first national magazine of the performing arts Theatre Australia which ran to 80 issues over 7 years and went to many countries around the world. From there he produced many arts documentaries for the Australian National Broadcasting Corporation and was given his own 90 mins per week arts series, Sunday Spectrum. His last broadcast was the Opening of the Australian National Gallery by Her Majesty the Queen on live television before returning to England in 1983 and founding the Lifetime Group.
Miscellaneous
He has recently formed 84Luv, an online and by text advice service, with top Relate Councillor, broadcaster and writer of the Sex and Relationships section of the BBC website, Paula Hall. He has also written, lectured and broadcast extensively. He currently lives in New York with his wife, Rebecca, a diplomat with the FCO, and has two sons, James and Christopher.